An Impersonal God

Q: Could you throw some light on Impersonal and Personal God, i get confused about these concepts of Hindu philosophy!

Response:

Th- e absolute Truth is an abstraction and an impersonal God is the ultimate reality but are we not living in a world of relations and relativity?

As such in simple words, Impersonal is formless, Nameless, Absolute, That, Pure Consciousness. The One Source of all that is. Personal God is when we identify that Pure Consciousness with a Name (Holy) and Form and attributes, and then relate in a personal level, like you must have heard time and again, my saying "i am the child of Divine Mother" This is i the devotee or seeker, is relating to the Divine Impersonal Self, as Blissful Mother.

We could also see it from the perspective of our own experience of daily life when we go to sleep and wake up! In deep sleep the One that remains detached from your identification with body, mind, senses, (dreamless sleep state) is the impersonal Self within you, and the moment you wake up you become personalized, The eternal formless Self is identified with your body mind and senses.This only brings the concept closer to our own experience and relating that to the most difficult perception of the dual and non-dual reality.

Of course, these are very subtle concepts! When we are talking of God (with form or without) we are talking about something which is beyond the mind and intelligence to grasp, that which even yogis in deep meditation fail to realize but are revealed in Pure Grace to the ones who are utterly surrendered, divinely intoxicated, mad in love.

Hindu religion and Indic philosophy is focused more on God with forms, for it is natural for us to relate to God as Father, Mother, Friend, ... and develop the deepest relationship of unconditional love. From multiplicity to duality, and from duality to Non-dual Reality this is the nature's course of returning Home.